BBCode Helper

Category:Helpers | Category:Helpers::Community | Category:Helpers::Text

Use this helper to parse strings and turn BBCode style tags into basic HTML with settings available to offer protection from reprbate types who post enourmous images.

[code]<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

/**

• CodeIgniter BBCode Helpers
• @package CodeIgniter
• @subpackage Helpers
• @category Helpers
• @author Philip Sturgeon
• @link http://codeigniter.com/wiki/BBCode_Helper/ */

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

/**

• parse_bbcode
• Converts BBCode style tags into basic HTML
• @access public
• @param string unparsed string
• @param int max image width
• @return string */

function parse_bbcode($str = '', $max_images = 0) { // Max image size eh? Better shrink that pic! if($max_images > 0): $str_max = "style="max-width:".$max_images."px; width: [removed]this.width > ".$max_images." ? ".$max_images.": true);""; endif;

$find = array( "'[b](.?)[/b]'is", "'[i](.?)[/i]'is", "'[u](.?)[/u]'is", "'[img](.?)[/img]'i", "'[url](.?)[/url]'i", "'[url=(.?)](.?)[/url]'i", "'[link](.?)[/link]'i", "'[link=(.?)](.?)[/link]'i" );

$replace = array( "\1", "\1", "\1", "<img src="\1"".$str_max.">", "<a href="\1" target="_blank">\1", "<a href="\1" target="_blank">\2", "<a href="\1" target="_blank">\1", "<a href="\1" target="_blank">\2" );

return preg_replace($find,$replace,$str);

}

?>[/code]